Dear Professor
NOMINATION HOLBERG PRIZE
The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund invites you to nominate
the Holberg International Memorial Prize for outstanding work in the
academic fields of the arts and humanities, social science, law and
theology. The prize for 2011 is NOK 4,5 million (approximately EUR
530,000/USD 785,000*), and was established by the Norwegian Government
in 2003.
Letters of nomination must be sent to us by 15 September 2010.
Holberg Prize Laureates:
2010: Natalie Zemon Davis
2009: Ian Hacking
2008: Fredric R. Jameson
2007: Ronald Dworkin
2006: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
2005: Jürgen Habermas
2004: Julia Kristeva
How to nominate?
Scholars holding a senior position at universities and other research
institutions within the above mentioned academic fields are entitled
to nominate candidates for the Holberg Prize. The Holberg Prize's
Academic Committee will base its assessment on the letters of
nomination which must state the reasons for the nomination (2 to 3
pages). Letters should also contain a brief CV for the candidate and
suggest referees who know the scholar and his/her work. Joint
nominations do not strengthen a candidacy. Nominations are strictly
confidential.
For more information:
http://holbergprisen.no/en/nomination.html
The award ceremony takes place in Bergen in June 2011.
If you have questions, please don´t hesitate to contact Ms Trine
Kleven, Project Manager in Holberg Prize: trine.kleven@holbergprisen.no
Yours Sincerely,
Professor Jan Fridthjof Bernt
Chair of Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund
www.holbergprisen.no
*Currency rates may change. Present rates from January 2010.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Appel de soumission pour Monde des femmes 2011
(english follows)
R�PONDEZ � L'APPEL.
Vous �tes engag�e dans la recherche ou vous plaidez pour l'�galit� des femmes, leurs droits ou leur autonomisation?
Vous devez assister Mondes des Femmes 2011 , l'occasion r�v�e de nous rassembler et d'�changer. Soyez partie prenante de cette conversation.
Le 30e anniversaire de cette conf�rence f�ministe internationale et interdisciplinaire aura lieu du 3 au 7 juillet 2011 au Canada, dans la ville d'Ottawa-Gatineau.
Jusqu'au 15 septembre 2010, nous acceptons des propositions venant des milieux universitaires et communautaires, tout autant que de groupes, personnes, coalitions, r�seaux et �quipes.
Nous esp�rons que vous allez R�PONDEZ � L'APPEL .
MF 2011 va rassembler des universitaires, militantes, chercheures, d�cisionnaires politiques, travailleuses, activistes et artistes de tous �ges et de partout pour �changer sous le grand th�me �Inclusions, exclusions et r�clusions: Vivre dans un monde globalis�.
Pour plus d'information: info@mondesdesfemmes.ca
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ANSWER THE CALL.
Are you engaged in research and/or advocacy relating to women's equality, women's rights, women's empowerment?
Then you should know about Women's Worlds 2011 , a place where we can all connect and converse. The conversation includes you.
The 30th anniversary of this international and interdisciplinary global feminist conference will take place in Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada from 3-7 July of 2011.
Until September 15, 2010, we are accepting proposals from academia, the community level, and everywhere in between -- groups, individuals, coalitions, networks, teams.
We hope you will ANSWER THE CALL.
This event will bring together academics, advocates, researchers, policy-makers, workers, activists, and artists of all ages from around the world under the theme "Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world".
For more information: info@womensworlds.ca
R�PONDEZ � L'APPEL.
Vous �tes engag�e dans la recherche ou vous plaidez pour l'�galit� des femmes, leurs droits ou leur autonomisation?
Vous devez assister Mondes des Femmes 2011 , l'occasion r�v�e de nous rassembler et d'�changer. Soyez partie prenante de cette conversation.
Le 30e anniversaire de cette conf�rence f�ministe internationale et interdisciplinaire aura lieu du 3 au 7 juillet 2011 au Canada, dans la ville d'Ottawa-Gatineau.
Jusqu'au 15 septembre 2010, nous acceptons des propositions venant des milieux universitaires et communautaires, tout autant que de groupes, personnes, coalitions, r�seaux et �quipes.
Nous esp�rons que vous allez R�PONDEZ � L'APPEL .
MF 2011 va rassembler des universitaires, militantes, chercheures, d�cisionnaires politiques, travailleuses, activistes et artistes de tous �ges et de partout pour �changer sous le grand th�me �Inclusions, exclusions et r�clusions: Vivre dans un monde globalis�.
Pour plus d'information: info@mondesdesfemmes.ca
------------------
ANSWER THE CALL.
Are you engaged in research and/or advocacy relating to women's equality, women's rights, women's empowerment?
Then you should know about Women's Worlds 2011 , a place where we can all connect and converse. The conversation includes you.
The 30th anniversary of this international and interdisciplinary global feminist conference will take place in Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada from 3-7 July of 2011.
Until September 15, 2010, we are accepting proposals from academia, the community level, and everywhere in between -- groups, individuals, coalitions, networks, teams.
We hope you will ANSWER THE CALL.
This event will bring together academics, advocates, researchers, policy-makers, workers, activists, and artists of all ages from around the world under the theme "Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world".
For more information: info@womensworlds.ca
Call for a new boundary-crossing network: Anthropology and Mobility
*** Apologies for cross-postings ***
/Call for a new boundary-crossing network/
*Anthropology and Mobility*
Convenor: Noel B. Salazar
Mobility, as a concept-metaphor, captures the common impression that
people�s life-worlds are in constant flux, with not only persons
(including anthropologists), but also cultures, objects, capital,
businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas
circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. Among anthropologists,
it is fashionable these days to study tourism, migration, diaspora, and
exile; cosmopolitanism and transnationalism; global markets and
commodity chains; and global information and communication technologies,
media, and popular culture. The literature is replete with metaphorical
conceptualizations attempting to describe perceived altered spatial and
temporal movements: deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and
scapes; time�space compression, distantiation, or punctuation; the
network society and its space of flows; the death of distance and the
acceleration of modern life; and nomadology. The interest in mobility
goes hand in hand with theoretical approaches that reject a sedentarist
metaphysics in favour of a nomadic one and empirical studies on diverse
mobilities, questioning taken-for-granted correspondences between
peoples, places, and cultures.
While anthropologists traditionally tended to ignore or regard
border-crossing movements as deviations from normative place-bound
communities, cultural homogeneity, and social integration, the
discourses of globalization and cosmopolitanism of the 1990s shifted the
pendulum in the opposite direction, mobility often being promoted as
normality, and (too much) place attachment a digression or resistance
against globalizing forces. At the same time, critically engaged
anthropologists were among the first to point out that not all
mobilities are valued equally positively and that the very processes and
regimes that produce trans-border movements also result in geographical
and social immobility.
This new scholarly network aims to facilitate theoretical and
methodological exchanges on anthropology and mobility. What is the
analytical purchase of (im)mobility as a conceptual framework to study
and understand the current human condition? What are the most adequate
methods to research objects of study �on the move�? The network will not
only foster intellectually stimulating debates among anthropologists
working on mobility along various thematic and conceptual lines, but
will also create exciting opportunities for collaborative research and
publications.
We kindly invite everyone interested to attend our first network
meeting, which will be held during the 11th EASA Biennial Conference in
Maynooth, Ireland (24-27th August). The meeting will take place on
Wednesday, 25 August, from 20.00 until 21.30. The exact location will be
announced at the conference through flyers (http://www.easaonline.org/).
Those who want to express their interest in joining the network may contact:
Noel B. Salazar, Ph.D.
Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, bus 3615, BE-3000 Leuven
Noel.Salazar@soc.kuleuven.be
/Call for a new boundary-crossing network/
*Anthropology and Mobility*
Convenor: Noel B. Salazar
Mobility, as a concept-metaphor, captures the common impression that
people�s life-worlds are in constant flux, with not only persons
(including anthropologists), but also cultures, objects, capital,
businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas
circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. Among anthropologists,
it is fashionable these days to study tourism, migration, diaspora, and
exile; cosmopolitanism and transnationalism; global markets and
commodity chains; and global information and communication technologies,
media, and popular culture. The literature is replete with metaphorical
conceptualizations attempting to describe perceived altered spatial and
temporal movements: deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and
scapes; time�space compression, distantiation, or punctuation; the
network society and its space of flows; the death of distance and the
acceleration of modern life; and nomadology. The interest in mobility
goes hand in hand with theoretical approaches that reject a sedentarist
metaphysics in favour of a nomadic one and empirical studies on diverse
mobilities, questioning taken-for-granted correspondences between
peoples, places, and cultures.
While anthropologists traditionally tended to ignore or regard
border-crossing movements as deviations from normative place-bound
communities, cultural homogeneity, and social integration, the
discourses of globalization and cosmopolitanism of the 1990s shifted the
pendulum in the opposite direction, mobility often being promoted as
normality, and (too much) place attachment a digression or resistance
against globalizing forces. At the same time, critically engaged
anthropologists were among the first to point out that not all
mobilities are valued equally positively and that the very processes and
regimes that produce trans-border movements also result in geographical
and social immobility.
This new scholarly network aims to facilitate theoretical and
methodological exchanges on anthropology and mobility. What is the
analytical purchase of (im)mobility as a conceptual framework to study
and understand the current human condition? What are the most adequate
methods to research objects of study �on the move�? The network will not
only foster intellectually stimulating debates among anthropologists
working on mobility along various thematic and conceptual lines, but
will also create exciting opportunities for collaborative research and
publications.
We kindly invite everyone interested to attend our first network
meeting, which will be held during the 11th EASA Biennial Conference in
Maynooth, Ireland (24-27th August). The meeting will take place on
Wednesday, 25 August, from 20.00 until 21.30. The exact location will be
announced at the conference through flyers (http://www.easaonline.org/).
Those who want to express their interest in joining the network may contact:
Noel B. Salazar, Ph.D.
Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, bus 3615, BE-3000 Leuven
Noel.Salazar@soc.kuleuven.be
CALL FOR AUTHORS: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Greetings,
We are inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference work on
consumption and waste, or the social science of garbage.
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse
from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining
what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an
important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by
behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of
dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the
average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage
can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope
with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our
trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and
art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across
multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to
include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing. Each
article ranges from 600 to 3,000 words. We are now making assignments due
October 1, 2010.
This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be
marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product
available to students via the library?s electronic services. The General
Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr.
William Rathje, emeritus University of Arizona, the top scholar in the
field.
If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it
is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining sociological issues in today?s terms. Moreover, it can be a
notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing
credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book
credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or
access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or
more.
The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of
Garbage, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide
a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related issues.
Thanks very much.
Joseph K. Golson
consumption@golsonmedia.com
We are inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference work on
consumption and waste, or the social science of garbage.
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse
from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining
what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an
important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by
behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of
dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the
average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage
can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope
with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our
trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and
art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across
multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to
include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing. Each
article ranges from 600 to 3,000 words. We are now making assignments due
October 1, 2010.
This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be
marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product
available to students via the library?s electronic services. The General
Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr.
William Rathje, emeritus University of Arizona, the top scholar in the
field.
If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it
is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining sociological issues in today?s terms. Moreover, it can be a
notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing
credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book
credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or
access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or
more.
The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of
Garbage, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide
a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related issues.
Thanks very much.
Joseph K. Golson
consumption@golsonmedia.com
Childhoods Conference: Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood - May 2011
Call for Papers
Childhoods Conference: Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood
Venue: University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date: Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7, 2011
This multidisciplinary conference will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines (including the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, policy studies, and education) in a consideration of the state of child studies, which has changed significantly in recent decades. Disciplines long dedicated to the study of the child, and childhood, have been recently revitalized and are engaged with the central problematic of what the child and childhood represent, including how these categories relate to others such as infant and youth. Figured in the plural, childhoods pose a significant crossroads for theoretical and empirical work on the nature of being human and development broadly construed. Various disciplines consider childhood as an experience, as a biological fact, as a social category, as an artistic and literary construct, as a category for historical and demographic analysis, as a category of personhood, and as a locus for human rights and policy interventions. Participating scholars will examine childhoods of the past, present, and future from around the world, and will present research results, policy approaches, and theoretical paradigms that are emergent in this re-engagement with the child and childhood. Bringing together divergent networks of expertise, this conference offers the opportunity for new research collaborations and the scholarly dissemination of innovative research.
Conference Format: three days of multidisciplinary panels with scholarly presentations on conference themes; poster sessions; several keynote events; practitioner sessions; and a film night.
Conference Themes and Questions: definitions and boundaries of childhood: invented or discovered?; indigenous theories and experiences of childhood; the importance of gender; the impact of globalization; the impact of changing technologies on children and childhood, and on the study of children and childhood; concepts of adolescence; vulnerability and empowerment; and health, development, disability, and risk. Proposals for papers on additional themes will also be considered.
Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Patrizia Albanese (Co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth and Families, Ryerson University)
- Dr. Mona Gleason (Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- Dr. Allison James (Professor of Sociology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield)
- Dr. Perry Nodelman (Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Winnipeg)
- Dr. Mavis Reimer (Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood and Director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg)
- Dr. Richard Tremblay (Director, Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal)
Submission Guidelines: For presentations, and for posters, please submit a 300 to 500 word proposal/abstract by October 1, 2010 on the conference website: www.uleth.ca/conreg/childhoods/ Proposals for organized panels that are multidisciplinary are also welcome. Please note that presentations should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. We would especially like to encourage graduate students to contribute posters on their current research and will offer a prize for best student poster.
For more information and to submit abstracts, please see the conference website
www.uleth.ca/conreg/childhoods. For general inquiries, please contact childhoods@uleth.ca.
Call for Papers - Special Issue - NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology
*NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology*
* http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus*
Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
*July 21st, 2010*
*CALL FOR PAPERS
Volume 22*
*
*
*SPECIAL ISSUE: The ANTHROPOLOGY of INFECTIOUS DISEASE*
*Submission Deadline: **September 7th, 2010*
* *
Greetings, students of Anthropology!
*NEXUS* is seeking submissions for a *SPECIAL ISSUE** on the "Anthropology
of Infectious Disease".**
*
This topic has been a particular area of interest for many former & current
McMaster Anthropology students. We are seeking to highlight a great
tradition of scholarly works in this topic area by anthropology students,
whether or not the work was produced during McMaster University course
and/or thesis work. Please consider submitting your publication-quality
theoretical, methodological, critical, applied, or other types of works.
As with other academic peer-reviewed journals, our double-blind review
process will ensure that your work remains completely confidential until the
publication stage. Procedures for submission, review, and publication
decisions can be found at our NEW website, *
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus* - just click on the "Policies &
Submission Guidelines" link in the left-hand column (or access the author
guidelines in
PDF<http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus/2010_Nexus_Submission_Guidelines.pdf>
).
*All submissions must be uploaded ONLINE to the Nexus website, which is now
ready to accept submissions!
The deadline for submissions is September 7th, 2010.**
*
Nexus is an open-access, online-only journal with the release of Volume 21
in 2009. All past issues can now be accessed, free-of-charge, in PDF format,
made possible by DigitalCommons powered by Bepress and the libraries of
McMaster University.
Please consider submitting your work to Nexus. Thank you for your
consideration, and please contact us with any questions at *
nexusjournal@gmail.com*, or visit
*http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus*for more information.
Sincerely,
Your Volume 22 SPECIAL ISSUE Editorial Board
Alison M. Devault & Jessica Pace
* http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus*
Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
*July 21st, 2010*
*CALL FOR PAPERS
Volume 22*
*
*
*SPECIAL ISSUE: The ANTHROPOLOGY of INFECTIOUS DISEASE*
*Submission Deadline: **September 7th, 2010*
* *
Greetings, students of Anthropology!
*NEXUS* is seeking submissions for a *SPECIAL ISSUE** on the "Anthropology
of Infectious Disease".**
*
This topic has been a particular area of interest for many former & current
McMaster Anthropology students. We are seeking to highlight a great
tradition of scholarly works in this topic area by anthropology students,
whether or not the work was produced during McMaster University course
and/or thesis work. Please consider submitting your publication-quality
theoretical, methodological, critical, applied, or other types of works.
As with other academic peer-reviewed journals, our double-blind review
process will ensure that your work remains completely confidential until the
publication stage. Procedures for submission, review, and publication
decisions can be found at our NEW website, *
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus* - just click on the "Policies &
Submission Guidelines" link in the left-hand column (or access the author
guidelines in
PDF<http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus/2010_Nexus_Submission_Guidelines.pdf>
).
*All submissions must be uploaded ONLINE to the Nexus website, which is now
ready to accept submissions!
The deadline for submissions is September 7th, 2010.**
*
Nexus is an open-access, online-only journal with the release of Volume 21
in 2009. All past issues can now be accessed, free-of-charge, in PDF format,
made possible by DigitalCommons powered by Bepress and the libraries of
McMaster University.
Please consider submitting your work to Nexus. Thank you for your
consideration, and please contact us with any questions at *
nexusjournal@gmail.com*, or visit
*http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus*for more information.
Sincerely,
Your Volume 22 SPECIAL ISSUE Editorial Board
Alison M. Devault & Jessica Pace
Dalhousie University - Job Posting
Position: James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies
University: Dalhousie University
Departments: Psychology, Computer Science, Social Anthropology
Established in 1818, Dalhousie is one of Canada's top teaching and
research universities and the largest university in Atlantic Canada with
approximately 15,500 students and 12 Faculties. This Endowed Chair is a
tenured, senior academic position, and was established by Dalhousie to:
contribute to the field of Black Canadian Studies; advance Black studies
in the university; and establish better links with the wider community,
especially the African Canadian community. This will be Dalhousie's third
appointment to the James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, and
is being recruited to one of three faculties: Faculty of Science
(Psychology), Faculty of Computer Science, or Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences (Social Anthropology).
The appointment is effective July 1, 2011. The closing date for
applications is August 25, 2010.
More information: wanda.bernard@dal.ca
<mailto:wanda.thomas.bernard@dal.ca> ; applications:
katherine.rudolph@dal.ca
If you require any further information, please contact me.
Thank you,
Katherine
Katherine Rudolph, BSA
Administrative Assistant
to Susan Spence Wach, Associate Vice-President Academic Programs
to Kim Thomson, Special Projects Coordinator
Dalhousie University
Room 108, Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building
6299 South Street
Halifax, NS B3H 4H6
Tel: (902) 494-7806
Fax: (902) 494-1658
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